Debagarh, Odisha

Not a Scheduled AreaCensus 2011 district code 373

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16 Oct 2026 · DecidedEnvironmental clearance grantedProposal for grant of EC of Mahajanmunda Stone Quarry over an area of 4.27Ac./1.728 Ha in village…
15 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details suppliedProposal for Fresh EC of Gurujang Sand Bed over an area of 12.302 Acres or 4.978 Ha having Khata No.54,…
9 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details suppliedProposal for grant of EC of Mahajanmunda Stone Quarry over an area of 4.27Ac./1.728 Ha in village…
8 Oct 2026 · Details soughtAdditional details soughtApplication Submission for Fresh Environment Clearance of Loharakote Sand Bed Over an area of 10.026 Acres…

Dated by the portal's own appraisal history, converted to India Standard Time; a proposal with no recorded history appears on its register submission date.

Other clearances these proposals declare

Forest land diversion declared: 2
Forest land sought for diversion: Area not stated
Wildlife board recommendation declared: 0
In or near a protected area: 0
In an eco-sensitive zone: 0

These counts are taken from the application forms of the 38 of 38 proposals naming this district whose forms have been read for these questions. In 29 of those forms at least one question was left blank, and a blank answer is counted as unknown. The forest area is the area stated for forest clearance, with each forest proposal counted once, in the district where its project is primarily sited.

Proposals naming this district: 38
Category A proposals: 2
Families declared displaced: 50
Families declared affected: 160

Displacement figures are the proponents’ own declarations. A project sited across several districts declares one figure for the whole project, and that figure is counted once, in the district where the project is primarily sited.

Fifth Schedule status

Not within a Fifth Schedule Scheduled Area

This district was carved from Sambalpur in 1994; the only part of Sambalpur the Order names, Kuchinda tahsil, stayed in Sambalpur. C.O. 109 fixes its area by reference to territorial divisions as existing at 31 December 1977, and a district drawn later does not change the ground the Order scheduled. No part of the ground the Order scheduled passed to this district, so no part of it is a Scheduled Area under that Order. The Ministry of Panchayati Raj's list of notified Fifth Schedule Areas does not name it either.

OrderThe Scheduled Areas (States of Bihar, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa) Order, 1977 · C.O. 109, notified 1977-12-31

What the record shows

The Scheduled Tribe share here, 35.3%, is at least double the national figure of 8.55%.
Cultivators and agricultural labourers make up 76% of workers here, against 55% nationally, so at least three in four people who work here do so on the land.
Agricultural labourers, who work other people's land for wages, make up 50% of workers here. Compensation for acquired land is paid to those who hold title to it, so it does not reach them. They can still claim the rehabilitation and resettlement entitlements of the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, 2013 (RFCTLARR), because its section 3(c) counts a family whose livelihood depends on the land as an affected family, wherever that Act governs how the land is obtained.
Applicants for projects sited mainly in this district have declared 50 families to be displaced. The figure comes from their applications, and we have not verified it.

Each of these observations appears when a fixed rule is met by the figures on this page, so the same figures always give the same sentences. None of them is a view on whether a project should go ahead.

Who lives there

Figures from Census 2011, each compared with the all-India value computed on the same definition.

Total population: 3,12,520
Households: 75,452
Average household size: 4.14; 0.71 below India's 4.85India
Scheduled Tribe share of population: 35.3%; 26.8 points above IndiaIndia
Scheduled Caste share of population: 16.7%; level with IndiaIndia
Children aged 0-6: 12.8%; 0.8 points below IndiaIndia
Literacy rate: 72.6%; 0.4 points below IndiaIndia
Sex ratio: 975; 32.5 above India's 942.6India

What they live on

How the district's workers earn a living, from Census 2011. The land-dependent share counts cultivators and agricultural labourers as a share of all workers, and it is the group most directly affected when land is acquired.

Total workers: 1,65,435
Work participation rate: 52.9%; 13.2 points above IndiaIndia
Workers dependent on land: 75.7%; 21.1 points above IndiaIndia
Cultivators: 25.8%; 1.2 points above IndiaIndia
Agricultural labourers: 49.9%; 19.9 points above IndiaIndia
Marginal workers: 49.6%; 24.8 points above IndiaIndia
Household industry workers: 4.9%; 1.1 points above IndiaIndia

How households live

Land, income and work among rural households, from the Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011, which recorded these where the population census did not. Only the survey's rural part is used here, so urban households do not appear.

Rural households owning land: 53.6%; 7.5 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households whose highest earner makes over ₹5,000 a month: 7.7%; 16.7 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households living mainly on manual casual labour: 62.1%; 10.3 points above IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.
Rural households with a salaried member: 6.2%; 2.1 points below IndiaIndia
The India figure is computed from 614 of 640 districts, because the source table has no value for the others.

When these were filed

Each proposal is dated by the first step in its appraisal history, the dated record of steps the portal keeps for it.

2023-Q32026-Q3

The timeline counts 36 of the 38 proposals here. The first filing date comes from each proposal's appraisal history, and we have not yet read it for the other 2, so they are left out. Most of them are older proposals, so the early part of the timeline undercounts what was filed then. The register itself records a date for each of them; the gap is in our copy of the histories.

Hatched columns undercount, so they cannot be compared with solid ones.

What kind of projects these are

The proposals naming this district, grouped by the sector each was filed under.

Non-Coal Mining 89.5%
River Valley and Hydroelectric Projects 5.3%
Industrial Projects - 2 5.3%

The four largest sectors are shown by name and the rest are grouped as Other.

What is proposed here

These are the proposals in the national environmental clearance register whose application names a site in this district, newest first. A project with sites in several districts appears under each of them.

All 38 proposals that name this district, newest first.

Showing the first 38 of 38 proposals. The rest load in the browser, and with scripting turned off they can be read from odisha.json under /data/instruments/consent/projects/.